171/348 wrote:Seems to me it would be hard to say all the time.Although, it's written on my arm, so maybe I just have to come up with an introduction where I let people read it and thus I don't have to keep repeating one seven one of three four eight or one hundred seventy one out of three hundred and forty eight or whichever other jumbled iteration comes out of my mouth... Probably some kind of litmus test for how BORG vs. Art I'm feeling at the moment.

Looking at the tattoo I have an urge to call you "Holocaust", but I'm twisted that way...

It's a camping trip in the desert, not the redemption of the fallen world - Cryptofishist

If we meet, I'm just gonna to call you One-Seven-One unless you tell me differently . . . and/or take some sort of marvelous pratfall or commit a heroic act that makes a new playa name terribly obvious.

*** 2017 Survival Guide ***"I must've lost it when I was twerking at the trash fence." -- BBadger

My nickname since highschool was Gonzo Slutpuppy Because one day I was going to grow up into a Mondo Whoredog. RobbiDobbs said that was slightly sexist. Well she said it it was a violent sexist slur or something like that....I don't listen to her all that close. So I took my favorite beer and favorite actress names and combined them for...Gonzo Budseka. did not roll off the tongue. So second choice was Old Frothingslosh and Natalee Wood. Gonzo Frothwood was born. Then a good Mexican friend of mine told me that Gonzo means either goose or stupid in Spanish. Thanks high school friends for calling me stupid goose. Love you too!

"There is nothing so over-estimated as a piece of ass, and nothing so under-estimated as a good and greasy shit." Boneman Johnson

So, should I come up with my own name, or have someone give one to me?I read about camps where their gift was to have a veteran burner quick chat with you, ask you a bunch of questions, and then they come up with a fitting Playa name. It sounds cool, and I would totally dig that, but isn't that just one of those “Burnier than thou” rules that someone came up with?

Malcolm wrote:So, should I come up with my own name, or have someone give one to me?I read about camps where their gift was to have a veteran burner quick chat with you, ask you a bunch of questions, and then they come up with a fitting Playa name. It sounds cool, and I would totally dig that, but isn't that just one of those “Burnier than thou” rules that someone came up with?

Keep it easy. Pay your way into one of the plug&play camps. It's either first night or first day they have a circle &#$* drum and assign everyone their "playa name" on a name tag.

Jar Jar Sith Lord.Odd. No bears in the dump. Oh well, lets go across the road & pick blueberries..... but don't harm the red dragon that frequents the area from time to time. He and I have an agreement.

Malcolm wrote:So, should I come up with my own name, or have someone give one to me?

The best playa names are the ones that organically attach themselves to you over the course of the week (if at all), the worst are when you give yourself something awful like Playalight or Stardust and realize you're the 400th+ person to choose that dated thing. If you have a real life nickname that people use, feel free to use that. Personally, I use my real name & don't want a playa name - I'm the same person in the middle of the City as I am in the middle of the playa, and don't see a need to "become someone else" for the week. I understand why others want to however, and say more power to you. Just let it happen naturally.

It's a camping trip in the desert, not the redemption of the fallen world - Cryptofishist

If we meet, I'm just gonna to call you One-Seven-One unless you tell me differently . . . and/or take some sort of marvelous pratfall or commit a heroic act that makes a new playa name terribly obvious.

Well since that is how they number prints and lithographs - how about Limited Edition.

Savannah: I don't know what it is, but no thread here escapes alive. You'll get 1 or 2 real answers at minimum, occasionally 10 or 12, and then we flog it until it's unrecognizable and you can't get your deposit back.

My name is Steve. My boss, for reasons I can't even begin to fathom, decided one day that I am "Schtev of da Fjords". Seems like a good Playa name, and has led to numerous stereotypically Scandinavian sounding conversations with said boss.

"I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass through me. Where the fear has gone, there shall be nothing. Only I will remain."

Malcolm wrote:So, should I come up with my own name, or have someone give one to me?I read about camps where their gift was to have a veteran burner quick chat with you, ask you a bunch of questions, and then they come up with a fitting Playa name. It sounds cool, and I would totally dig that, but isn't that just one of those “Burnier than thou” rules that someone came up with?

why do you ask this, "Twodogsfucking"?

"I will not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. I will face my fear. I will let it pass through me. Where the fear has gone, there shall be nothing. Only I will remain."

Malcolm wrote:So, should I come up with my own name, or have someone give one to me?I read about camps where their gift was to have a veteran burner quick chat with you, ask you a bunch of questions, and then they come up with a fitting Playa name. It sounds cool, and I would totally dig that, but isn't that just one of those “Burnier than thou” rules that someone came up with?

Malcolm wrote:So, should I come up with my own name, or have someone give one to me?

The best playa names are the ones that organically attach themselves to you over the course of the week (if at all), the worst are when you give yourself something awful like Playalight or Stardust and realize you're the 400th+ person to choose that dated thing. If you have a real life nickname that people use, feel free to use that. Personally, I use my real name & don't want a playa name - I'm the same person in the middle of the City as I am in the middle of the playa, and don't see a need to "become someone else" for the week. I understand why others want to however, and say more power to you. Just let it happen naturally.

Come on, you know you're Eric the Red, because we have more than one. The next one will be 12ManyErics.

The playa name you do not want is along the lines of Skidmark... a drunk guy who sat naked in our camp chair got that lovely moniker.

lemur wrote:we had someone one year, upon being noted as being too clean.. did a "playa angel" (like the snow angel thing but.. in the dust) and ..did it face down.

(which is totally the wrong way to do a snow angel)

he became face down

Well then go ahead and call me Face Down 2: Electric Boogaloo, because I plan on doing my newbie playa angel face down. No need to get a headstart in the Who-Has-The-Most-Dust-In-Her-Hair competition at the end of the week.

A newbie in camp a couple of years back happened to indulge in fungi as they were unloading their set up. At some point after unloading and unrolling the carpet he was laying on it and talking to it and became rather infatuated with it, for the rest of the week he was know only as "Carpet". I have no clue what his real name was, maybe Ryan or something...

In reality, I'm Starting to dislike Mrpatatomoto. But its so off the wall that it works for internet shit since nobody else has it. There are other Mrpotatomoto's though. Thought about spelling it right once and it didn't work out. Other than that people call me my default name, Mike. which is boring and common as hell.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.